At 06:56 AM 6/08/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>Helen Borrie wrote:
> > Is the InterBase docco correct in saying that NUMERIC(p, s) has a
> > precision of not more than p, whilst DECIMAL(p, s) has a precision of
> > at least p?
>
>Helen, reading your newer email on this subject, are you worried about IB7
>types or about FB types?

About FB types only. But I hadn't heard that either FB or IB had changed
the implementation of fixed numeric types since IB 6, at which point the
doc on ODS-10 things isn't always reliable.

So far, it's starting to look as if I will have to choose between competing
theories.
:-)
H.